He means, there's little room left for improvements on your hard drive. The current environment has it full to bursting already. Now it's not so silly, is it?;)
It's now official. C++ creator admits it was all a hoax!
In a stunning move, C++ creator Stroustrup identifies the fine line between a ridiculous self-parody of over-engineering, and soul-destroying evil, and pole-vaults over it.
Repeat after me:
You don't overload whitespace.
You don't overload whitespace.
You don't overload whitespace.
You don't overload whitespace.
Which is why Leto has to live for 1600 years -- if he were to stay mortal, there would be nothing to ensure that his ideas, the stagnant culture he creates, and the ossified universe around Dune would last 50 years beyond his death, never mind over a thousand.
Don't forget the reason that Leto wants to create this stagnant, boring culture: He and Paul had prescient dreams about the extinction of humanity. These dreams fixed the shape of the future (else they wouldn't be prescient, right?). Prescience destroys free will, and also locks the future in place. The only way to save humanity is to:
1) Lock humanity in stasis like a pressure cooker
2) Breed humans who are invisible to prescient power
3) Wait for explosion, which will spread prescience-invisible humanity far and wide, past the scope of the prophecy of extinction.
I was always impressed by the series for the sheer scope of imagination.
There is also One True Editor, One True Brace Style (for those languages which use them), One True Indentation Style, and One True Language (which potentially makes the One True Brace Style irrelevant). All naysayers will be shot.
Infidel! The One True Indentation Style was declared anathema. The Other True Indentation Style is the Real True Indentation Style! You fools can hit % all day long and you'll never see your context line. Ha ha ha!
There was a time when Columbus must have said, What is there "innovations" can you put in English ships. They are the best in the land"
Columbus' great innovation was putting these ships in the water. The rest is history. BTW, he did it with Spanish ships. in 1492 the English navy was pretty much land-based.
A student at the college told me that cell phones have destroyed the community atmosphere as the students are only interested in getting out of the class and getting on their cell phones.
Sounds like these students are calling the people they want to talk to... where's the problem?
...when everyone in Japan ends up with a mysterious head cancer.
Yeah, but at least all their friends will know how to get 'em a condolence message. They won't have to guess which hospital, look up the front desk number, etc etc...
Bringing a mobilephone when you go skiing/hiking/some-non-nerdy-activity creates a sense of false security.
This is starting to sound like special pleading against cell phones. Sure the cell phone can break, in which case you're no worse off than if you didn't bring it. I like to have a cell phone while driving, so that when the car breaks down I can call AAA.
It [use of DLL] also makes upgrades and bugfixes easier (think openssl, for example).
But... but... with this new scheme, where each app stays with the DLL version it shipped with, the new fixed DLL you ship won't be accessed. The apps will be locked into the old version.
Since the benchmark page was slashdotted I might be speaking out of my ass. But I never trust "9000 times faster!". It sounds too "2 extra inches to your penis, guaranteed!"
Not really a bad picture but what's the *nix equivalent of Yankee Doodle?
Here are some (ahem) better pictures: the girls of Linux. I don't know about the "doodle" part, but I daresay there's a quite a bit of "yankee" associated with these pix.
(N.B. These pictures can be just a bit racy... so open with caution, if at work)
Before using open-source software, tech companies must sign a license in which they promise to give away innovations they build on top of it.
I guess they should have a sit-down with RMS first...
Certainly. He could have explained that:
1. They don't have to sign the license... it's automatic!
2. They don't have to give away innovations; but their clients, having the source code, can choose to if they wish.
I was sort fo hoping against hope that MS would be moving further toward XML and therefore allowing greater standardization.
It's surprising how many people make dumb comments like this on Slashdot. Please go learn about XML then get back with us.
Briefly, XML is a format for data formats. Creating a document in an XML format doesn't mean it'll be readable by anybody else.
I think you're perhaps being a little hard on the grandfather poster there. Sure, sure, XML is just a format for data formats, but don't forget the subtext. When people say they're switching to an XML format, it's almost always with the understanding that it is for greater ease-of-use and interoperability.
The interminable discussions on/. about ways that MS could obfuscate valid XML documents (eg <word_doc><![CDATA[ 87AS6BSDJHA3...8AUGJSHK ]]></word_doc>) certainly "proved" your point, but do recall that there was -- or seemed to me -- a general consensus that if you're not going XML to open up your data format for interoperability, what's the point?
Anyway, these are random thoughts. If you're kind, send me aspirin. I have a headache.
Well, around here you could show your fake counterculture street-cred by bagging on an already-unpopular group -- say, SUV owners or Microsoft users -- and thinking you're all "on the edge".
If the mass media has a silly view of programmers, it is too late to change it. When I first saw Jurassic Park, and they had that scene in the outdoor cafe where they start zooming in on the greasy fat unpleasant guy, one phrase was zooming through my mind over and over: "Please God don't let him be the evil computer guy."
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Repeat after me:
You don't overload whitespace.
You don't overload whitespace.
You don't overload whitespace.
You don't overload whitespace.
Kid Leto's business plan:
1. Wait while your whole family dies in "accidents" or is "posessed by ghosts".
2. Become one with worm
3. [...]
4. Prophet!
1) Lock humanity in stasis like a pressure cooker
2) Breed humans who are invisible to prescient power
3) Wait for explosion, which will spread prescience-invisible humanity far and wide, past the scope of the prophecy of extinction.
I was always impressed by the series for the sheer scope of imagination.
Go laziness!
Now, to explain this to the boss...
Or am I missing something?
(N.B. These pictures can be just a bit racy
1. They don't have to sign the license... it's automatic!
2. They don't have to give away innovations; but their clients, having the source code, can choose to if they wish.
The interminable discussions on
Anyway, these are random thoughts. If you're kind, send me aspirin. I have a headache.
Much cheaper than buying a Segway.
If the mass media has a silly view of programmers, it is too late to change it. When I first saw Jurassic Park, and they had that scene in the outdoor cafe where they start zooming in on the greasy fat unpleasant guy, one phrase was zooming through my mind over and over: "Please God don't let him be the evil computer guy."
Me and God have to have a little talk.